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door. He tried for a moment longer to brave her, and called 

 loudly for another mug of ale. She turned her head to the 

 bar-maid, and said, &quot; You ll get no more ale !&quot; and the bar 

 maid minded her. 



She said he had been there before, this morning, and when 

 he began drinking in the morning it was always the last of 

 him for the day. He whimpered out that he had come home 

 and breakfast wasn t ready, and he hadn t any thing else to 

 do but to come back here. It was ready, she said, and he 

 might have been looking for some work, and so on. In a 

 few minutes they went off arm in arm. 



Opposite the inn was an old church and a graveyard. 

 There were more monkey-faces on the church, and two effi 

 gies in stone, of knights the forms of their bodies with 

 shields, barely distinguishable, and their faces entirely effaced. 

 Many of the gravestones had inscriptions in Welsh, and 

 both here and at Wrexham I noticed the business of the de 

 ceased person was given, as John Johnes, Wheelright; Wil 

 liam Lloyd, Tanner, d c. On a flat stone near the church, 

 the following was inscribed (letter for letter), probably by a 

 Welsh stone-cutter following an English order, given verbal 

 ly &quot; This his the end of the vault 1 



Returning from the church, we found the currier again 

 drinking beer in the tap-room, with a number of other men, 

 a drunken set, that probably had come passengers by a stage 

 wagon that stood in the road. This was an immense vehicle, 

 of pre-railroad origin, like our Pennsylvania wagons, but hea 

 vier and higher. It had a heavy freight of barrels, cases, and 

 small parcels, on the top of which, under the canvass hooped 

 cover, a few passengers were cheaply accommodated, there be 

 ing a ladder in the rear for them to ascend by. Behind one of 

 the hind- wheels was a roller, attached by chains on either side 

 the wheel to the axle-tree, so that if the wagon fell back any, it 



